
Timekeepers
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Timekeepersis a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. In this fascinating, anecdotal exploration, award-winning author Simon Garfield has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.
Here, Garfield explores the nature of time through stories such as: the Beatles learning to be brilliant in an hour and a half; an Englishman arriving back from Calcutta, refusing to adjust his watch; Beethoven's symphonic wishes being ignored; a US Senator's speech that goes for 25 hours; the horrors of war frozen at the click of a camera; a woman who designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar; Roger Bannister living out the same four minutes over a lifetime; and a who prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.
"Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining."- The Sunday Times, UK
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Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Very, Very Early or Very, Very Late
- 1. The Accident of Time
- i) Leaving the Ground
- ii) The Shortness of Life and How to Live It
- 2. How the French Messed Up the Calendar
- 3. The Invention of the Timetable
- i) The Fastest Thing You Ever Did See
- ii) Was Ever Tyranny More Monstrous?
- 4. The Beet Goes On
- i) The Way to Play the Ninth
- ii) Just How Long Should a CD Be?
- iii) Revolver
- 5. How Much Talking Is Too Much Talking?
- i) In the Time of Moses
- ii) Talking It Over
- 6. Movie Time
- i) How You Get to the Clock
- ii) Oncoming Train
- 7. Horology Part One: How to Make a Watch
- i) A Very Difficult Floor
- ii) Just What Is It about the Swiss?
- 8. Roger Bannister Goes Round and Round
- 9. Vietnam. Napalm. Girl.
- i) The Split Second
- ii) 'I am Muybridge and this is a message from my wife'
- 10. The Day Shift
- i) We Will Crush, Squash, Slaughter Yamaha!
- ii) The Boss from Hell
- 11. Horology Part Two: How to Sell the Time
- i) Vasco da Gama Special Edition
- ii) Welcome to Baselworld
- iii) Uh-oh
- iv) In Which We Name the Guilty Man
- v) The Most Valuable Watch on the Planet
- 12. Time Tactics That Work!
- i) The Berry Season
- ii) The Lean Email Simple System
- 13. Life Is Short, Art Is Long
- i) The Clock Is a Clock
- ii) White People Are Crazy
- 14. Slowing Down the World
- i) A Place Where Time Stands Still
- ii) Living Frenchly
- iii) Faster Food
- 15. The British Museum and the Story of Us
- i) The Book of Hours
- ii) Doomed and Marooned
- iii) Those Who Feel Differently
- Epilogue: Humility Watch
- Further Reading and Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Index
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